Northwest Fishing Reports

Chuck, I'm not sure what's going on. I have fished several spots that normally produce real well this time of year and I'm not finding fish. I can understand the lack of fish around sun up bay due to the gill netting that goes on there during the spring, but the others have me puzzled. I have still ...

3 pike yesterday has me at 215. Released one at a little over 10 pounds and 33". Lost another one at the boat that was a little bigger, maybe 12-13 pounds. Saw a few others follow on the day.

It looks like I will be getting a new boat sooner than I expected. Found a great price on what I'm looking for so my Skeeter is going up for sale. It's a 1996 ZX 200C with a Yamaha 200 Pro V. The boat is in excellent condition. In fact most people don't believe me when I tell them what year it is. T...

JUstin, I believe the guy you are talking about is fishing out of a 20' blue Lund dual windshield boat. I first encountered him about 3 or 4 years ago. I would be fishing that stretch for two or three hours and he would show up around 10 or 11 oclock. He must have that spot marked with a gps way poi...

Crappie in the area + 47-48 degree water = BIG PIKE Or at least it should. It's been kind of a weird year. I've been finding fish on every trip so far this year but haven't seen any high number days yet. I was fishing in up to 54 degree water last weekend. Hopefully the drop in temp will get the big...

4 more on Saturday brings me to 212 for the year. Looks like I'm the only one pike fishing. Did everyone else hang it up for the year? Spinner baits still doing the trick for me.

6 more pike yesterday, has my total at 208

I was fishing in Canada, looking for a 40+ inch pike that would weigh over 25 pounds. Instead, I caught a 215 pounder.

I added three pike over at Noxon Reservoir on the 23rd to get me to 196, then 6 more yesterday to go over 200. Sitting at 202 for the year.

This is one big issue with the WDFW and pike. There are SOOOOO many people that enjoy catching them, they are afraid if there is a thriving pike fishery ANYWHERE in the state, the bucket biologists will transplant them into their precious trout waters. I have said for years that pike would thrive in...

Lax charged $14.95 per inch plus shipping. The plaque it's mounted on was another $150. I ordered mine during their fishing show season and got a 10 percent discount. Total with shipping was $900

Buddy, thanks for posting that. I agree 1000%. Unfortunately for us pike LOVERS, the WDFW, along with all the salmonid lovers in the state of Washington, will never show the level headed thinking, and ideas that Mr. Mitchell displays in this article. Now, that's just my opinion. Should everyone thin...

For ever I had said I would not spend the money required to mount a nice fish and hang it on the wall. In 2015 I caught two Northern Pike with the same dimensions, on consecutive trips. Both fish were 45 1/2" and weighed 25 pounds. This year in February I sent photos and ordered a fiberglass reprodu...

I took Friday off and hit Cda again for pike. Brandon got 3 and I got 9. He decided that his 13 pounder was going to be big fish of the day and started bragging a little. I warned him that the day was not over yet, then about an hour later I landed a 14lb 9ozer. His fish was an inch longer but it's ...

I put 5 more pike in the boat on Saturday bringing me to 184 for the year. Water temps barely made it over 70 by the end of the day. Weather forecasts are calling for dropping daytime temps after Thursday as well as overnight temps in the low 50's. That should help get the fall pike push going. Satu...

Chuck, I'm appalled that you think it's good that pike may be successfully spawning in the Columbia. (Not really) Idaho is where it's at. The Cda system is there for the taking. Montana has some options as well. A friend and I are planning a trip to Noxon in a few weeks. We heard the pike are there ...

I squeezed in a couple of hours of pike fishing last night with Mark K. I had verbally given up catching a pike. I announced to the fish that they had beaten me, and I was conceding to them that they had handed me my first skunk of the season, albeit on a short trip. 5 minutes before I was going to ...

3 more over the weekend puts me at 178. Am I the only one left pike fishing this year???? Saturdays fish weighed 5lb 8lb and 10lbs. Not lots of fish but pretty nice ones.

Sane? You were up at 11pm posting on a fishing website. Your sanity is long gone.
I released 4 more pike on Saturday. now up to 175 for the year. I got a couple of 30"ers and a couple of 27"ers

5 pike in the boat on Saturday gets me to 171. The water temps came down a little from my last trip to Cda. I saw 73 the whole time I was there. That's a good thing. Another 5 to 10 degrees lower and they should really turn on. Normally I have to slow retrieves down a little in the hot weather and w...